ate a short method of resolution on the spot, propose officially ("obtain material there, I propose to order there, I ask that this be done to avoid red tape"), such a statement or request will greatly facilitate the center's struggle against red tape;

3) to the Council of People's Commissars and to the Council of Defense — in the All-Russian Central Executive Committee;

4) after approval by the Council of People's Commissars, publish an article (with examples; spell it out) in *Bednost'* 92.

Lenin

2
To Kursky:
(the evil of red tape)

1) It is necessary to write it more popularly,

2) reproduce the entire text of the law,

3) bring 3-4 concrete
examples
why? what? this
facilitates the struggle
against red tape

4) demand that every guberniya executive committee republish it,

5) explain that we will punish both for ignorance and for non-application of this law.

no later than the 23rd, 1919

Written in December, not earlier than the 17th

First published in 1928

in Lenin Miscellany VIII

Printed from manuscripts